We're having a baby!, sentence 14

"It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started and the baby is getting ready to be born.

Who acts: date, we, going, labour, baby · What happens: be, go, mean, start, get, bear · To what, where: time, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (date, we, going, labour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 means	csubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hospital	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hospital	det
11	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hospital	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 started	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 started	aux
16	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 means	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 getting	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 baby	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 getting	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 getting	aux
21	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 started	conj
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 getting	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	25 born	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 born	aux:pass
25	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ready	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	date	time			tree rules
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	we		the hospital		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location
3	mean	present	going				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	start	present · perfect	labour				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	get	present · progressive	the baby			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	bear	to-infinitive · passive	the baby not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:018-were-having-a-baby.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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